From ea588dd594ecfbafa9cd764f2ffc12de5f351600 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2022 20:29:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add introduction sentence for CJS

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42491
Reviewed-By: Geoffrey Booth <webadmin@geoffreybooth.com>
Reviewed-By: Akhil Marsonya <akhil.marsonya27@gmail.com>
---
 doc/api/modules.md | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/api/modules.md b/doc/api/modules.md
index 030c963f5764cf..6e8f703e5fd546 100644
--- a/doc/api/modules.md
+++ b/doc/api/modules.md
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@
 
 <!--name=module-->
 
-In the Node.js module system, each file is treated as a separate module. For
+CommonJS modules are the original way to package JavaScript code for Node.js.
+Node.js also supports the [ECMAScript modules][] standard used by browsers
+and other JavaScript runtimes.
+
+In Node.js, each file is treated as a separate module. For
 example, consider a file named `foo.js`:
 
 ```js